Talk is about blame and trades. Keep everyone. Webb will be back. He's still hurt. Hope this team stays healthy. The truth is that the whole team is to blame and nobody is stepping forward to be the leader and the heart. When this is the problem, you need a coach to light a fire in the lockeroom. The Kings are talented offensively and how does that go away if Adleman leaves? Have you seen the Mr. Rodgers assistant coaching staff? Teach the team some discipline and you have a monster. The problem is Petrie and Adleman are ex-teamates and good freinds.
This team is a very good team The thing of the matter is there really isn't a good defensive player on the team...Adelman is a good coach,but he'd go a lot farther if he instituted more defensive players,and the Maloofs need to draft,or even trade for better Defensive players,and perhaps get more youngsters on the squad Personaly,We have the skills to do better than what we have been doing,it's just the matter,of trying to jiggle the bench,and maybe get more defense so we can suceed past the first few rounds of the Playoffs
Funny how so many people are down on Adelman. He has taken teams to the NBA finals before you know... <edit> .. and yes.... its a team effort from top to bottom, that includes all players and coaching staff.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting harbingerofdoom:</div><div class="quote_post">Funny how so many people are down on Adelman. He has taken teams to the NBA finals before you know... <edit> .. and yes.... its a team effort from top to bottom, that includes all players and coaching staff.</div> Adelman is a great coach,the only problem i have with him is he doesn't use a lot of younger guys play,of course there are hardly any youngsters playing for the Kings I Think what the Maloofs need to do is draft some very good Defensive players,and i believe we'd go a lot farther than we have been doing for years?
Yes he went to the finals...and lost. Yes he is a good coach...not good enough to take the Kings where they want to go. I can tell you why Phil Jackson is a good coach. Popovich as well. Jerry Sloan is a good coach. Everyone can say Adelman is a good coach because his team has won lots of games. But nobody can tell me what Adelman does well. Did he teach Peja to shoot those 3s? Vlade to pass? These kinds of things will be there if Adelman leaves. Good coaches fire their team up and can get a team to play aggressive defense. That's why the Jazz were still good this year with a nobody roster. Thats why Hubie Brown has taken the Grizz to the playoffs. Think Kobe's airballs against the Jazz and the next year being swept by the Spurs. Enter Jackson... Need more of this story?
If Adelman can't get them over the hump he needs to go. This team is at the point where what the coach did in the past doesn't matter. You can only keep saying we'll get'm next year for so long. I'm not a kings fan but anyone can see that they have the talent to go all the way. Keep the team, add some D & lose the coach.
I can't really blame Adelman right now. He can't go on the court and make the baskets for them. He tries. Fact is, Game 7, we choked. Plain and simple. You ain't gotta be pointing a finger at anybody. We choked. All these discussions about breaking up the team: bull. You can't break up what we have now. It won't do. Especially all that I hear about trading Peja. A guy like that? Please. I know dude didn't step it up in Game 7, but that doesn't take away from his value, as a player maybe it does. We should see what we can get for Webber though. He's looking bad right now. The lift in his legs just ain't there no more and since this knee injury he ain't been the same. But as for Adelman, you can't blame dude right now. But if this playoff choking continues with him on the job, we should start considering.
A coach's job is to make sure he can keep the team at least in a position to be able to win in the 4th. Calling certain plays, making substitutions and running practices is how he does that. you cant say the kings were not in a position to win in the fourth quarter in each of those losses.
Adelman's a Great Coach,No Doubt...But... ...I Think he could have used our younger players much better.Adelman in my eyes prefers veterans,and with the youngsters that we have on our team,he should have used them more,as some of the vet's were hurt off and on all year Another thing,is Adelman needs to think more defensively,and since he really hasn't done that,i think we probably could have had the series against the T-Wolves already won,but since we didn't,can't cry over spilled milk But Still...I'm happy about the job Adelman's been doing..like sactown dyme said ealier,can't blame the guy,but if this happens again in the 2004-2005 season,than maybe we oughta think about going in another direction..until than,we will work with what we have!!
Proof that the Kings need a new coach comes from WCF game 7. The Lakers played intense defense in the first half making Minny take terrible shots and tough passes. Every person wearing gold played smothering defense and it is not due to defensive specialists, role players, stars etc. When EVERY player plays like that it is proof that the coaching staff knows how to teach play. Also, the instinct to clamp down and "go for the jugular" I guess you could say is something the coaches are mainly responsible. The Lakers coaches get those guys to do such things. Kings coaches don't.
